With a cut-glass accent that reflects her precision-tooled comedy, Tania Edwards inflicts maximum damage with faint praise. We talk about her process, her practice and her peeves - and learn why you can’t have your cake and eat it too…

An extraordinary education in stand-up from someone who’s been doing it since the seventies! San Francisco-based Will Durst mixes observations about life in one’s sixties, as well as political fire-brandery that swirls from column to stage. We talk about: the backbeat of jokes; escaping the responsibilities of adult life; “running twice as fast just to stay in the same place” and getting kicked out of the White House…

Todd Glass is a runaway train; stoked by righteous anger, coupled together by a natural warmth. Known for coming out of the closet some thirty years into his career, he talks here about the ramifications of that announcement, his propensity to be “always on”, and how rage can fuel liberalism.

In part two of this conversation with the free-wheeling comedy craftsman, Ross Noble argues that ideas with unusual logic are often mistaken for “surreal” comedy, and explains his process of un-honing ideas by starting with something neat and then taking it to bits live on stage…

Ross Noble makes apparently casual improvisation into an art form, breathing life into nonsense for hours at a time and provoking gales of laughter.
In the first part of this conversation we talk about how he cultivated his devoted live following, how hard it is to define what’s basically him “dicking about”, and the benefits of making TV warm-up work for you…

In the second part of our conversation, standup and comic actor David Cross explores offence, outrage and sensitivity.
We also talk about his work on Arrested Development and Mr Show, and dig into his process, his struggle to write jokes, and how to regard an audience as a living breathing thing…

The star of “Arrested Development”, “Mr Show” and “The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret”, David Cross is also a phenomenal stand-up, whose work howls at the stupidity and hypocrisy around him.
In part one of this interview he talks about his earliest material and how he overcame the fear of bombing onstage, and speaks very frankly about the cycle of anger and depression that could grip him in his less creative moments…

The Smartest Man In The World speaks frankly about life, lyricism and the pursuit of laughter. We talks about the evolution of Greg’s linguistic style, and how he borrows from authors to make it gooder…
We discuss the thrill of improvisation, and the stream-of-consciousness style that allowed him to improvise an entire standup album on the night. All this and some fascinating behind-the-scenes details on Greg’s podcast, and how it is further cultivating his audience - an unmissable episode!